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the pages are headed or lettered in groups, a
certain number of pages being classified un-
der A, a certain number under B, and so on
throughout the alphabet; and the lines upon
5 the pages under each letter are numbered
consecutively.
I have illustrated two methods of number-
ing the lines. In Fig. 1, the lines upon the
pagesunder a certain letter begin with a unit
to in each case, so that the first line under A
will be numbered one, those under B with
one, and so on. Pages 60 and 61 are the first
two pages under C, as will be seen by refer-
ence to the numberingsof the lines indicated
15 in the spaces N at the left margin of each
page.
In Fig. 2 the lines upon thepages under cer-
tain letters are numbered in groups as in Fig.
1,with the difference thatone-hundred numer-
20 als are allotted to each letter whereby the
lines under A begin with one-hundred and
one, those under B.with two-hundred and one
and so on, those under M beginning with
thirteen-hundred and one, as shown in said
25 Fig. 2.
Each method has itsadvantages, but either
may be used with either form of index shown
and described: the same principle, that of
numberingall the lines upon the pages under
30 particular letters, consecutively in groups, be-
ing common in and forming the essential fea-
tures of both methods.
In Fig. 2 but one numbering of the lines
for two opposite pages is sufficient, in Fig. 1,
35 corresponding lines upon opposite pages are
similarly numbered.
The pages marked F in the drawings are
those upon.which the names of grantors are
indexed, and the pages marked T are those
40 upon which the names of the grantees are in-
dexed, the words "from " and "to" following
the index letters at the heads of such pages,
respectively.
Referring to Fig. 1, the first entry upon
45 page 60 indicates that a quit claim deed (des-
ignated by the letters Q. C. D.) given in the
year 1840, passed from H. A. R. Cook to Joseph
Magee and that the same is recorded upon
page 302 of record book F. Upon page 61
50 Cook's name again appears as a grantee, in
which a deed of trust passes to him from
Maddox. Also on line 4, page 60, Cody is in-
dexed as a grantor, having given to Cameron
a quit claim deed which is recorded upon page
55 275 of book E, and upon line 5 of page 61, the
same transfer is entered, the name of the
grantee Cameron being indexed.
Referring now to Fig. 2, upon page 376,
line 1301 Maddox is indexed as a grantor of
6o a release in 1838, to S. S. Alexander, the same
being recorded upon page 100, book 2, and
lower upon the same page, line 1307, Maddox
is again indexed as a grantor to Clark and
to Cook. But opposite the last entry, (upon
65 page 377) is found an entry, which being
placed upon the grantee page, shows that in
1852 a release passed to Maddox (grantee)from Mark Queer (grantor) the same being
recorded upon page 28, book C. Also line 1302,
Magee is grantor to Campbell and Bishop, 70
and grantee from Cook, Lane and Cameron,
respectively.
The letter O designates the spaces for the
names of grantors, E the spaces for names of
grantees, P the spaces for names of papers 75
recorded, Y the spaces for dates (years) in
which the papers were drawn, and I the
spaces for the references to the record books,
and the pages thereof.
On the second line of Fig. 2 it will be seen 8o
that the entries indexed under the name of
Joseph Magee occupy the entire line of the
two pages, the first two entries designating
papers emanating from this person, and the
next three entries, papers passing to him; 85
and from this line the entries are carried
two lines below where is recorded a release
given to Joseph Magee by L. M. Bishop in
1847. In Fig. 1, however, the first entry on
page 60 is a deed passing from Mr. Cook, 90
from which the record skips to the fourth
line of page 61 where is recorded a deed of
trust given to Mr. Cook by K. T. Maddox.
It will thus be seen that with the form illus-
trated in Fig. 1 it is necessary to rewrite the 95
name indexed whenever he changes from
grantor to grantee, whereas in the form shown
in Fig. 2 the entries can continue entirely
across the two pages, as in the case of Mr.
Magee on the second line, provided they oc- too
cur in the proper order. If not, the entry will
be similar to that on the seventh line of this
figure which is given to Mr. Maddox. In this
case he gave a release in 1852 to B. L. Clark
which was recorded on page 27 of book C and 1o5
which is indexed on the " from " or even page;
and the following day of the same year Mr.
Maddox received a release from Mark Queer
which was recorded on the next page of the
same book (28 C). The next year Mr. Mad- Imo
dox gave a deed of trust to Mr. Cook which
was recorded on page 290 of book A, as seen,
from which the indexing under this name
(Maddox) is continued to line 1350 in a man-
ner described below. It will be further ob- us
served that the positions of the names of
grantor O and grantee E are changed on the
different pages of one book, as seen by the
lettering on the lower lines of each figure.
Thus the last entry on page 376 indicates a i2o
release passing from Mr. Medaris to Mr.
Clark and recorded on page 11 of book G, in
which case the former is the grantor and the
latter the grantee; whereas, had this entry
been made on this line of page 377, it would 125
have indicated that this release passed from
Mr. Clark to Mr. Medaris. Hence the searcher
when using the form illustrated in Fig. 1 de-
termines whether the name in the first column
is that of the grantor or grantee by whether 130
it occurs on the page F or the page T; whereas
in the form illustrated in Fig. 2 where the
names indexed are all on the page F, he de-
termines whether the paper indexed passes
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Heppenstall, James Edward. Index., patent, April 11, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173375/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.